Sheffield Royal Hospital

Facade of 20 Westfield Terrace which served as the out-patients department

The facility had its origins in a public dispensary which opened in 1832.[1] It became known as the Sheffield Public Dispensary Hospital[1] after it was extended in 1860[2] and it became known as the Sheffield Public Hospital[1] after it was extended again in 1870.[1]

The hospital was completely rebuilt in the early 1890s and was officially opened by the Duchess of York as the Sheffield Royal Hospital on 11 May 1895.[2] A new nurses' home was completed in the late 1890s.[2] The Mount Zion chapel on Westfield Terrace, with its impressive facade in Classical Revival style with projecting portico with pediment and a pair of giant Ionic columns in antis, was acquired in 1922.[2] Once the chapel had been converted into an out-patients department, it was officially opened in its new role by the Minister of Health, Neville Chamberlain, in 1927.[2]

The hospital joined the National Health Service in 1948 and, after services had transferred to the Royal Hallamshire Hospital, it closed in 1978.[2]

The buildings were demolished in 1981, except for the facade of the former Mount Zion Chapel on Westfield Terrace, which as a Grade II listed building, was converted into offices.[3]

• J Edward, Vickers (1987). A Popular History of Sheffield. Applebaum Bookshop. ISBN 978-0906787045.